Can a crash dump from kdump/sysrq contain any sensitive information?

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Issue

  • A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 server that is PCI Compliant. If it crashed for some unknown reason and performed a sysrq/kdump, could there be any sensitive information contained in the crash dump?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All Version)

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